Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is n't the perfect way ; it remains horrible , but the lesser of many evils .
2 In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years .
3 This ideal of an expressionless face in situations of great anxiety was strongly emphasised in the bushido ( way of the warrior ) which was the guideline for samurai and the ideal for many others .
4 He had championed the cause of the poor for many years in a series of investigative articles , and had highlighted the terrible conditions in which a large proportion of the ordinary Dublin people lived .
5 Difficulties in defining disability , together with powerful limits on society 's generosity towards handicapped groups , seems likely to continue to restrict the scope of financial provision for the disabled for many years to come .
6 Dolphins and small whales have also been hunted in the Caribbean for many years , especially around the island of St Vincent .
7 Though used by the young of many homeotherms , this method of warming is not open to adults , even those of populations subject to extreme cold , for the brown fat disappears before adolescence .
8 The young of many species take cover as soon as an alarm call is given .
9 This is a beautiful , small twelfth-century room , used as a stable for many years after the depredations of the Revolution but carefully restored in the 1850s .
10 Pilot X was cruising for a bruising in many respects in Worst Day 9 .
11 He was a Christian for many years but quite unable to forget that he had once been ‘ an infidel and libertine , a servant of slaves in Africa ’ .
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